Seed-corn rack.



A. P. HERTSGAARD.

SEED CORN RACK.

APPLIOATION FILED JULYs, 1912.

1,079,241. Patented Nqv.18,1913.

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AMUN P. HERTSGAAR'), 0F KNDRED, NORTH DAKOTA..

SEED-CORN BACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

Appucauon nies my 5, 1912. serial No. 107,881.

To all whom t may concer/n Be it known that I', AMUND P. Hears- GAARD, acitizen of the United States, residing at Kindred, in the county of Cassand State of North Dakota, have invented new and useful Improvements inSeed Corn Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to racks or hangers for supporting ea'rs of cornthat are to be preserved for seed.

The principal object of the invention is to produce a rack composedprincipally of a plurality of units of simple and improved constructionwhich may be readily added to or subtracted from the device to produce arack of the desired capacity.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and improvedunit, a plurality of which may be combined to form a rack of the desireddimensions.

V'Vith these and other ends in view which will readily appear as thenature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in theimproved construction and novel arrangement i and combination of partswhich will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferredform of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitationis necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited,but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of theclaims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing a rackconstructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspectivedetail view of one of the units of which the rack is composed. Fig. 3 isa perspective detail view of the suspending hook detached. Fig. i is aperspective view of a bottom member or section which is preferably usedin connection with the device.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by likecharacters of reference.

The improved device is mainly composed of a plurality of units A madepreferably of Wire which may be galvanized or other- Wise protectedagainst corrosion. The Wire composing each unit is bent to form a yokeor hanger comprising a cross bar or bridge piece 1 and the limbs or sidemembers 2, 2 extending upwardly from the ends thereof. At the upperextremities of the limbs 2 are formed arcuate ear supporting arms 3, 3which project in lanes approximately at right angles to the Ibridgeplece 1 and parallel to each other, said arms bein joined to the limbsor side members 2 by t le inverted U-shaped loops 4. These units may beformed of relatively slender' wire and of suitable dimensions so thatthe arcuate arms 3 of each unit will be capable of supporting an ear ofcorn of average size.

A suspending hook B which is formed of relatively stiff wire is provided'.vith a supporting loop 5 having a horizontally disposed cross bar (iof a length approximately equal to the length of the cross bars orbridge pieces 1 of the units A.

A specially constructed bottom member C is provided, said bottom membercomprising in its construction two pairs of arcuate supporting arms 7, 7and 8, 8. The arms 8, S are connected with the arms 7, 7 b v invertedU-shaped loops 9, 9, the limbs of which are extended to form said arms,and it being noted that one pair of arms, 8, 8, are positioned below andoffset to one side from the arms 7, 7 and also that said arms 8, S areconnected together by a bridge piece 10, thus enabling the section orbottom member C to be formed of a single piece of wire by properlybending the same.

In practice, a plurality of units A may be connected together byinserting .the arms 3 of one unit between the limbs 2, 2 of the yoke orhanger of the unit next above, causing the inverted U-shaped loops 4: ofthe lower unit to rest and to be su ported on the bridge piece 1 of theyoke ci) the up er unit, and the arms 3 of the lower unit eing made toproject op ositely to the arms 3 of the upper unit. AKny desired number'of units may be thus connected to form a rack of the desired capacity,and the loops 4 of the uppermost unit are then engaged .with the crossbar 6 of the suspending hook B, which latter may be used to suspend theentire rack in any convenient manner. The bottom member or section C ismounted by the loops 9 on the bridge piece 1 of the yoke or hanger ofthe lowermost unit A of the rack, and it will be seen that said bottomsection being provided with support-ing arms 7 and 8 that extend inopposite directions from the supporting loops 9 may be evenly balancedor nearly so by placin ears of corn upon the oppositely exten ing suporting arms, thus avoiding liability of t e

